I was feeling pretty "marooned" this morning, as I have been for the last four weekends because of snow, ice, fog, and cold weather....The sun peeped out for just a very precious few minutes as little tiny snow flakes were falling, illuminating each one as they fell to the ground. With the emergence of the beautiful sun, I was illuminated too.
You know, when God looks down on us, he must feel pretty disappointed (kind of like the line by Alice Walker in The Color Purple-- "God gets pissed off when we don't notice the color purple") when we don't realize that he has created an opportunity for enlightenment for us and we turn it down. He gives us winter as rest from planting, growing, and harvesting. In winter, we "turn down the noise" to rest, reinvigorate, and renew ourselves as to our purpose in the journey through life to heaven. We have to "turn down the noise" aka--life's daily trivia--to see the bigger picture and the bigger purpose.
It takes a lot to get us ready to go to a perfect place like heaven--if we didn't have that "prep time" we would not fit in when we got there. Every little detail that we create (or don't create) in our lives is designed for one thing--to mold us, change us--to allow the ultimate evolution of our souls.
This is the day the Lord has made--I will rejoice and be glad in it. So simple, yet so difficult.
Suddenly, I am grateful for another weekend of solitude and look forward to using the new tools I was given in winter to cultivate my new growing things in spring.
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